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Star Wars, a low budget science-fiction film, has achieved blockbuster success at the box office. It has garnered immense popularity across various cultures and age groups for numerous decades. In addition to its popularity, Star Wars effectively communicates several significant themes, with the classic hero journey being one of the most prominent throughout the movie….

In Nathaniel Hawthorne ’ s Young Goodman Brown and The Birthmark, opinion becomes a reoccurring subject. In Young Goodman Brown, the supporter, Goodman Brown embarks, on a diabolic mission where he consorts with the Satan, and Judgess his fellow work forces. With the Satan s influence he concludes that all work forces are evil and…

The time setting of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” is in the 1930’s and 1940’s, before the civil rights movement, but in the midst of the Great Depression and World War II. Stamps, Arkansas is a segregated Southern town in which Maya is raised by her grandmother. This was an era before the…

In the United States, the healthcare system is ruled by corporate greed alone. The well being of individuals of our country has been put aside, with the amount of money it costs is the prime motivation for insurance today. A price has been put on the value of human life. Without universal healthcare, the price…

In the words of Otto Von Bismarck, “Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.” Many of the preceding war novels to All Quiet on the Western Front, misrepresented or overlooked the anguish of war, in favor of more resplendent…

Death and heartbreak, both two very tragic things that could happen in your life, but what makes these things tragic? According to Aristotle there are many elements to a tragic tale. Oedipus Rex lives up to all of them. The reader knows how serious Oedipus’s actions are, how complete they are, and how high his…

The key to finding one’s true final form of conscious is to combine strength obtained and our capable ability of the mind. To transform and advance one must go through adversity. Stories about growing in the face of challenges are recorded in the past and seen today. Confrontation demands an individual leave convenience behind. This…

In the novel Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli taking place not even a year apart from the first novel Stargirl also by Jerry Spinelli is written out to be the world‘s longest letter by Stargirl. This book was all of the many diary entries Stargirl wrote in the course of a year or a little…

The theme of death has intrigued readers and authors for thousands of years and will continue to do so in the future.  It is the vast unknown that has left humans in fear and amazed.  There is no one who can tell others what it is like to die because everyone who knows is dead…

Handmaid’s Tale written by Margaret Atwood shows us unique aspects about the women who live in Gilead, the two different types of women in which Atwood mentions are unique, which are the Handmaids and the Martha’s. These two different groups of women are not allowed to read because Gilead imposes a illiteracy on the female…